Staff Software Engineer, AI/ML Recommendations, Rankings, Predictions, YouTube
Mountain View, CA, USA +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2025
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA
San Bruno, CA, USA - Experience
- 8 years in software development; 5 years in production recommendation systems and ML design/optimization; 5 years testing and launching products; 3 years in software design and architecture.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads the design and implementation of YouTube recommendation systems, ML infrastructure, and model architecture, while providing technical leadership across engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions.
- Lead recommendation system design and implementation, optimize ML infrastructure, and guide model architecture.
- Manage project priorities and deliverables, align teams, and coach a distributed engineering team.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- 5 years building and deploying production recommendation system models and building architecture across modeling domains; 5 years leading ML design and optimizing end-to-end Machine Learning.
- 5 years testing and launching software products; 3 years in software design and architecture.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 8 years of experience with data structures/algorithms; 3 years in technical leadership and 3 years working on cross-functional or cross-business projects in a complex, matrixed organization.
Pay
$207000 - $301000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Machine Learning
AI focus
Leads recommendation systems involving retrieval, prediction, ranking, and embedding; optimizes ML infrastructure and end-to-end Machine Learning, including deployment, evaluation, data processing, debugging, and fine tuning.
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